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A year ago yesterday, President Trump turned the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom to try to boost the slumping sales of ...

Call it the anti-coming-of-age story.

The death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the Iran war generated hope that the regime change the Trump administration and Israel yearned for would come to pass, perhaps ...

The death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on the first day of the Iran war generated hope that the regime change the Trump administration and Israel yearned for would come to pass, perhaps ...

Audrey Pascual Seco of Team Spain crashes during run one of the para Alpine-skiing-women’s giant-slalom sitting on Day 6 of the 2026 Winter Paralympic Games at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre, on March 12 ...

In trying to accomplish every objective and accommodate every interest, all at once, the state set up its housing agenda to fail.

The tech billionaire Hemant Taneja admits that AI is a bubble. In fact, he welcomes it: “Bubbles are good,” Taneja, the CEO of General Catalyst, a venture-capital firm, told me in an email. If AI ...

As he tells the story, atheism became untenable not primarily through an argument, but because of its inability to explain how his future wife had changed him. “My life was filled with love,” he ...

California knows it needs more housing. The state is the birthplace of the YIMBY movement—“Yes in My Backyard”—and its legislature has been passing laws designed to make housing easier to build for ...

More important, though, the switch represents the latest example of the Republican Party eating its own. Politically, Kiley’s decision is something of a Hail Mary pass. The new House maps that ...

Members of Congress are using the kind of anti-Muslim rhetoric that was common then—this time with a president who has encouraged it.